Implementation of a Mental Health Care Package for Children in Areas of Armed Conflict: a Case Study from Burundi, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Sudan

Overview

Journal PLoS Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2013 Jan 22

PMID 23335863

Citations 23

Authors

Mark J D Jordans

Wietse A Tol

Dessy Susanty

Prudence Ntamatumba

Nagendra P Luitel

Ivan H Komproe

Joop T V M de Jong

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